Last night I made a promise. This promise was to myself, but especially to my wife. I promised that for the period of one full calendar year I would not buy another book. It should be more like a 3-5 year pledge really. But I’m taking small steps. After spending several minutes boxing up the [...]
Archive for August, 2008
One Year
Posted in Books on August 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sept. 26th: Nights In Rodanthe
Posted in Movies on August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Update: The movie will be released Sept. 26th, not Oct. 3rd.
Sucker for Nicholas Sparks books: check, though they are predictable as hell.
Really enjoyed The Notebook: check, but hated Message In A Bottle.
Mad, mad, MAD crush on Diane Lane: check check check!!! (Don’t even ask me how many times I’ve watched Under the Tuscan Sun. Seriously…it’s [...]
Sasquatch and Steve
Posted in Just For Fun on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Of course this was a fake Bigfoot for crying out loud. Doesn’t anyone remember that Steve Austin (astronaut…a man barely alive…) let him get onto the big flying saucer and go live on another planet back in the 70s? Sheesh. I swear it was real. I watched it on a Sunday night in February 1976 [...]
Aleksandr
Posted in Books on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?“ – [...]
The angel across the fence
Posted in Movies on August 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There is an email going around that purports to tell the story of a young Jewish concentration camp survivor who was passed apples each day over the fence by a young girl named Roma during WW2. He appeared on Oprah and their story is being made into a movie which begins production this month and [...]
Prepping for the trip
Posted in Books, Family, Just For Fun on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ah…family vacation. Our first real one in over three years. And our first with Sophie. Of course I’ve been scrambling this week to get the van ready. Murphy’s Law kicked in and the ABS system went out. So Tuesday I had to replace that for $975 and decided while I was there I just as [...]